Are the posted questions getting worse?

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  • Phil Parkin wrote:

    Out of interest, are the spammers (and their bots) using the standard GUI to create these posts, or is there a back door that they've hacked into?

    they are using some kind of scripting tool to do it - easy enough to do it (if you know what to do), and scammers just pick up those scripts and run them.

  • frederico_fonseca wrote:

    Phil Parkin wrote:

    Out of interest, are the spammers (and their bots) using the standard GUI to create these posts, or is there a back door that they've hacked into?

    they are using some kind of scripting tool to do it - easy enough to do it (if you know what to do), and scammers just pick up those scripts and run them.

    For sure, but that does not answer my question. Does this tool emulate a human by doing clicks/submits in the GUI, or is there a hack which allows them to (effectively) bypass the GUI and run INSERTs to the table of posts?


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